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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT’s Newest Nobel Laureate Can you autograph my problem set?

  

  swap places--in 1990. Now I don't know about you, but I think this is ... , winner of the Nobel Prize in 2001. I think I would have asked them to ... EDIT: Matt mentioned there was a lecture in 10-250 by Prof. Schrock. I

  • by Bryan
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Senior Survey (Says?) (For the record, I think that being on Family Feud would be totally awesome)

  

  a joke. It's an ultra-cool door.) I'm in the middle of a tough week where I'm racing to finish up an incomplete in a class from last term by ... average here. That said, early on in my undergraduate career, I realized

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 3, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Well I Know That It’s a Wonderful World from the sky down to the sea, but I can only see it when you're…

  

  means in english." i closed my eyes, unable to continue. ... I slept. I slept voraciously. I slept with a vigor to make up for all the lost sleep in the last 3 months. After obsessively refreshing

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to Life, Back to Reality Did you know that you can make an equation out of anything?

  

  , in the world of math, while I was deriving the equations for the heat ... Name the song I stole the lyrics from and win a cookie. So this week was pretty intense: 6.021J - Quantitative Physiology I - Cells and

  • by Bryan
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A brief history of 2.007, the MIT class that inspired FIRST Robotics Complete with 1970s-era footage of Woodie Flowers

  

  in 1992. What I didn't know at the time is that FIRST was actually ... game in a long time I am legit jealous I won't get to participate in a ... If you're like me (and I'm willing to bet a lot of our readers), then

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Celebrate the Good Times just another good reason to eat more cake

  

  full day on Saturday while surveying the yard in anticipation, I said to ... cupcake in my hand (I was lucky to know where to stand to grab an early part ... MIT 150. I marveled at the large screen toast to MIT by alumni in space

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 6, 2011
• Blog / Events

  I saw fireworks from the freeway… Happy 4th!

  

  are just beginning. Oddly enough, I'm in lab, but later this afternoon, I will be participating in my first ever VEGETARIAN BARBECUE. It ... it. Last year, some friends and I celebrated July 4th by barbecuing at

  • by Bryan
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Le BBQ

  

  BBQ in the history of the universe. I should warn you that I saw Le ... many summers I spent in Grenoble. They had some fantastic vin de noix, je ... salad this side of July 14th. I erroneously added the raspberries in the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Sign of Things to Come If Paul Revere went to MIT, he'd say, "The psets are coming. The psets are…

  

  I guess summer is coming to a close. My schedule was posted on WebSIS. :-( [In all honesty, I'm actually really looking forward to this semester. The classes I'll be taking are really good, and I've wanted to take them

  • by Bryan
  • August 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Skies over MacGregor Views of campus, Boston, and the Charles River from ten stories up.

  

  This summer Random Hall was under construction. When I was in town I ... tried to take photos when I was in town, starting with some evenings ... th I took photos on the way back from tooling on campus in our favorite

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 21, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Flies… especially when you are having more fun than you could possibly imagine.

  

  that I would see them in five years when they would all come back to ... . I read their files, took part in deciding to admit them and welcomed ... them would return in the fall as freshmen and I was thrilled that I would

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • June 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another Day, Another Class

  

  So as promised earlier, this week I'm highlighting another one of my ... pronounces what we know as H20 as "woodur." Too bad I don't have a sound ... (ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid) on blood, he drew blood from the head TA in front of the

  • by Bryan
  • March 9, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fig. 3: La dolce vita snaps from an extended spring break

  

  , however, my exchange friends and I did a pre-Spring Break weekend trip in ... in Prague. I've traveled solo before, but this was the first time I'd done it for an extended, multi-city trip. In the following week, I went

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 23, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Punting

  

  studying civil engineering. I’m participating in the Cambridge ... in a big hall with 4 long tables where I am served a three course meal ... (where I’m staying) and dines here regularly. He’s in this

  • by Cambridge
  • October 3, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Borne back ceaselessly into the past I've had a week! The whole earth was created in a week!

  

  graduate I.M. Pei, is built in the shape of a 30-60-90 right triangle ... been much more interesting than that in the past week; it's just that I ... Someday I must tell you how I did it. Whoo! It's been a while, hasn

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Bloggers invade LA What should Sam and I do in Los Angeles? Suggestions welcome

  

  date? I don't think mine could have lasted another day or two...) Sam and I are flying out to Los Angeles today for a one-week stay in the ... When I woke up this morning, I made myself my typical bowl of Kashi

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 23, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Small Get-together Friday An informal reception for HMMT participants and others visiting Boston on Friday.

  

  be tomorrow (Friday) at from 5-7pm in Stata Center room 32-155. I know ... me as well. For those of you in from out of town, I'll be happy to ... While we're still quite busy with selection, tomorrow (Friday) I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trouble staying focused Finals. And about a zillion questions.

  

  taking catnaps and eating cookies. I've managed to get a few experiments in ... Ohhhh, finals week. This year, I have the distinct pleasure to only ... , since I had one on Friday afternoon and the other is Thursday morning

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Approaching Adulthood In which I spell out my semester to hopefully feel less overwhelmed

  

  was a bit sloppy, but I do need to get back in the habit of vlogging after winter break and IAP. This semester I'm only taking 3 official ... MIT and Boston are in the middle of the actual Snowpocalypse, so what

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • February 10, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The CPW Weather Machine Strikes Again a frivolous day in the sun and grass

  

  The weather sobered up just in time for CPW, and we celebrated the sunny warmth with a spring picnic. It was a day made for frivolity. I ... sweet potato fries, which I've been wanting to make since I read this MIT

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 18, 2012